BOC calls for applications for Grade 5 Scholarship Awards 2018

Continuation with its endeavour to encourage students who excelled in the grade 5 scholarship examination 2018, Bank of Ceylon (BOC) is now calling applications for its annual ‘Ran Kekulu Scholarships Awards’ from students who sat for the examination in 2018.

The programme began in 2002 as part of the bank’s corporate social sustainability programmes to uplift the status of the country’s education.

Maintaining a minimum balance of Rs.5000 in the Ran Kekulu account a day prior to the day the examination results are released and who obtained the highest marks at the grade five scholarship examination will be considered as eligible to be among the 2000 students of the 2018 Ran Kekulu scholarship grant, which is Rs.15000.

All other BOC Ran Kekulu account holders who have passed the 2018 scholarship examination will be awarded a valuable gift, provided they too have maintained a Ran Kekulu account, which was remained active a day before the release of the examination results.

The bank has already rewarded the top-most performers – those students who achieved island first, second and third places from the 2018 grade five scholarship examination with Rs.150,000, Rs.100,000 and Rs.75,000, respectively. A special feature added last year to the strategic CSR initiatives will also be continued – the bank will show its appreciation of the courage and dedication shown by differently abled students this year too.

BOC Ran Kekulu grade five scholarships will be awarded to selected differently abled students who have scored above the district cut-off mark based on the confirmation given by the Examination Department.

One hundred PFCA Minor (Personal Foreign Currency Accounts for Minors) account holders with BOC will be chosen from those who have fulfilled the eligibility requirement of passing the cut-off mark at the 2018 grade five scholarships examination and have maintained a minimum balance of US $ 250 or equivalent in other foreign currency for a period of six months, prior to the day of the examination that fell on August 5, 2018, will receive a scholarship worth Rs.25,000 each.

A specimen application and the eligibility criteria of the said scholarship scheme will be published in Sinhala, Tamil and English newspapers. The application can also be downloaded from the bank’s website www.boc.lk and Facebook page. The bank requests all eligible Ran Kekulu account holders to submit their applications before the deadline – November 27, 2018, to the nearest branch.